Searching for America-Janis Ian

[ti:Searching for America] [ar:Janis Ian] [al:Hunger] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.17]Searching for America - Janis Ian (珍妮斯·艾恩) [00:00.96]Written by：Janis Ian [00:01.67]Producer：Janis Ian [00:02.41] [00:22.27]Where have you been that made you weep [00:24.67] [00:27.40]And left these stains upon your cheek [00:30.44] [00:32.85]What did you see while you were gone [00:35.40] [00:38.14]That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn [00:40.88] [00:43.39]They herded us like so much meat [00:47.14] [00:48.67]Up from the sewers to the street [00:51.54] [00:53.95]Where concrete canyons stretched their walls [00:57.59] [00:59.07]So high it made us want to crawl [01:02.30] [01:04.50]Past proverbs writ on subway cars [01:07.77] [01:10.07]And in between the window bars [01:12.80] [01:15.30]We walked until the pavement bled [01:18.71] [01:20.67]And not a curse was left unsaid [01:23.17] [01:25.96]Into a place that knows no spring [01:28.55]Where only steel and silver sing [01:31.31]They made us dance until we dropped [01:33.87]And the music of the jackhammers stopped [01:37.39] [01:43.50]I caught a cinder in my eye [01:45.96]Searching for a patch of sky [01:48.68] [01:52.51]But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii [01:56.42]That's how I spent my yesterday [01:58.80] [02:02.11]Searching for America [02:05.95] [02:07.24]In the rivets and the rust [02:10.03] [02:12.68]Searching for America [02:16.32] [02:18.19]Finding only dust [02:20.52] [02:24.72]What did you see that made you cry [02:27.86] [02:29.86]And left these track marks on your eye [02:32.99] [02:35.34]What did you find while you were there [02:38.02] [02:39.91]That sucks the light out of the morning air [02:43.20] [02:45.82]They gave us each a cropper's shack [02:48.62] [02:51.11]And land so hard it broke our back [02:54.03] [02:56.31]Then fed us' til our bellies burst [02:59.85] [03:01.68]On promises that died at birth [03:04.28] [03:06.79]So I lay the baby out each dawn [03:10.31] [03:12.79]In between the tender corn [03:15.42] [03:17.69]With sunrise for her bonnet [03:20.23] [03:22.95]And flies her only blanket [03:24.93] [03:28.39]We harvested until we bled [03:31.26]'Til every single root ran red [03:33.65]And when the work was finally done [03:36.21]They gave our names to immigration [03:41.31] [03:46.08]I did not know how bad it hurt [03:48.12] [03:48.69]Until I lay there eating dirt [03:50.82] [03:55.05]And the cold seeped in between my bones [03:59.32]That's where I was when I left home [04:01.18] [04:04.62]Searching for America [04:08.81] [04:10.01]All her dreams and hopes [04:12.54] [04:15.16]Searching for America [04:20.71]Finding only ghosts [04:22.92] [04:48.58]Who are these people you have seen [04:51.75] [04:53.83]To dream this dark and distant dream [04:56.54] [04:58.93]To tell the stories you have told [05:02.39] [05:04.24]To leave these bruises on your soul [05:07.23] [05:09.50]They are the flesh they are the bone [05:13.78] [05:15.02]They are the very cornerstone [05:18.69] [05:20.24]They leave their mansions and their shacks [05:23.12] [05:25.49]To hide here in between the cracks [05:28.23] [05:30.76]Their hope is tattooed on my lips [05:33.80] [05:36.37]Bleeding from my fingertips [05:39.20] [05:41.21]They are crawling toward the promised land [05:44.45] [05:47.00]Hand over hand [05:49.62] [05:52.14]To walk until they run no more [05:55.00]And wash up on some distant shore [05:57.68]Where truth is not the enemy [05:59.82] [06:00.53]And whatever does not kill us sets us free [06:05.23] [06:08.99]Somewhere out there [06:12.89]Are millions just like me [06:15.40] [06:19.70]Homesick for Eden [06:23.14]Heartsick at the memory [06:25.13] [06:28.39]Searching for America [06:31.71] [06:33.79]In every stick and stone [06:36.79] [06:38.98]Searching for America [06:43.69] [06:45.09]Going home [06:46.44] [06:49.60]Searching for America [06:54.73] [06:55.76]Going home [06:58.24] [07:01.33]Yeah oh